Fiber art -- some artists I like are Magdelena Abakanowicz, Lenore Tawney, Sheila Hicks, Ed Rossbach, and Lissa Hunter. I'm also into Central Asian textiles , African-American quilts, and contemporary sculptors, especially Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, Rebecca Horn, and Andy Goldsworthy .
Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Dada/Surrealism, + other avant-garde movements -- I'm interested in creative people who lived btw. the Victorian era and WW II -- Antoni Gaudi, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald , Sophie Tauber, Max Ernst, Hannah Hoch, Constantin Brancusi, Joseph Cornell, Maya Deren.
Travel -- I need a trip happening in the near future to be truly happy.
Creative people; folks with alternative thoughts/ideas/lifestyles.
Patti Smith Group, , Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Yo La Tengo, Iggy Pop, Nick Drake, PJ Harvey, Joe Strummer and The Clash, Gabriel-era Genesis, The Talking Heads, Neil Young, Emmy Lou Harris, Jeff Buckley, Bjork, The Band, David Bowie, Kate Bush, and Brian Eno , and Ry Cooder.
German Expressionist films ( Metropolis ); horror films, esp. from the 1930s ( Bride of Frankenstein ); British-era Hitchcock ( The 39 Steps ); anything by Frank Capra, remarriage comedies( The Philadelphia Story ); Bitter Films; and generally movies by people who think outside the box ( Choose Me, 12 Monkeys, Ed Wood, Buffalo 66, Contact, The Last Picture Show, Amelie, The Science of Sleep, The Saddest Music in the World, ).
Turner Classic Movie Network (whatever is on).
A.S. Byatt, Patti Smith, Michael Chabon, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Marge Piercy, Michael Ondaatje, , Sarah Waters, Guillaume Apollinaire, Rumi, Carl Sandburg, John Vaillant, Ajit Mookerjee, George Orwell, and any of the Lonely Planet travel guides.
Patti Smith, Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Bailey, Terry Gilliam.
Groups Stitchin' Bitches, Spinning and Fiber Arts, Fiber Art Basketry.